Scholarship Quotes - Page 13

• Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Believe, Technology

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

  G. H. Hardy

  Passion, Science, Boys

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winning, Eras, Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Turns, Stoops

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Economist, Colleagues

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.489, Princeton University Press

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• The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Lust, Ordinary

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• Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Life Is, Forgotten

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

  Anatole France

  Men, Ice, Made

  Anatole France (2015). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Pedantry

  'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Father, Men

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• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, College

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

  Nina Bawden

  Girl, School, College

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• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  Taylor Branch

  Athlete, College, Thinking

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• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Fun, Thinking, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teaching, College, Class

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• I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

  Esha Gupta

  Communication, Years, Law

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• In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

  Stuart Appleby

  College, Airports, America

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

  Alex Flinn

  Stars, Writing, Ambition

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• I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

  Summer Glau

  Kids, Symphony, Company

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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• When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

  Robert Hass

  College, Years, Tuition

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• I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Vacation, Years

  "The Guardian" interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Creativity, Essence, Soul

  Nnamdi Azikiwe “ZIK A SELECTION FROM THE SPEECHES OF NNAMDI AZIKIWE Governor-General of the Federation of Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria”, CUP Archive

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• I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Drama, College, Years

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• I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

  Edward Norton

  School, Kids, Mars

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